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Sulphur Springs Elem

Hopkins County · Region 08: Mt Pleasant · 562 students

Current score
74/1002025-26
Change
−15 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
−5.9 ptsvs 79.9 average · 1,998 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
1,434 of 1,998tied with 65 others
C74

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving down; under the rules in force back then it scored 89 in 2021-22. The current score is below the 79.9 average for 1,998 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

STAAR result

Math above similar-context averages at Meets and Masters

Meets
49%vs 42.2% avg · +6.8 pts
Masters
26%vs 16.1% avg · +9.9 pts

Among 1,878 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.

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Current strength

Chronically absent lower than the similar-context average

12.5% −4.3 pts vs 16.8%

  • 12.5% is 4.3 percentage points lower than the 16.8% average among 1,934 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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Selected positive signals, not a summary of performance. The same rules choose them on every page: only the latest one-year gain, results meaningfully better than the currently selected comparison with broad reporting, and distinctive top-three placements. Demographics, staffing and spending cannot become academic “wins.” The overall rating and the full results below remain the complete picture for this school.

Read the full rating context and placement

Sulphur Springs Elem is rated C by TEA, scoring 74 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 79.9 average for 1,998 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is down 15 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 1,434th of 1,998 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 65 others).

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  1. Overview
  2. 5 years of ratings
  3. Where the score comes from
  4. Student outcomes
  5. Who this school serves
  6. Student counts behind the percentages
  7. Enrollment over time
  8. Discipline and removal from class
  9. Spending per student
  10. Teachers and actual class size
  11. Where this school ranks best
  12. Where this comes from

5 years of ratings

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Compare against
90807060 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas averageSulphur Springs Elem 8981708174 2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-26

2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years. Under the original scoring it was rated B with 89 that year.

Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.

View the yearly scores and comparisons
Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSelected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rateStateTexas average
2025-26C7479.9 1,998 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25B8179.6 1,975 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24C7077.7 1,959 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23B8178.3 1,926 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22B8982.2 1,904 reporting83.7 7,283 reporting

Where the score comes from

Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.

  • Student Achievement74 C−3.7 vs similar economic context · 1,891 reporting
  • School Progress77 C−3.8 vs similar economic context · 1,883 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps67 D−10.1 vs similar economic context · 1,864 reporting
  • Academic Growth66 D−7.9 vs similar economic context · 1,824 reporting
  • Relative Performance77 C−2.2 vs similar economic context · 1,883 reporting
  • Sulphur Springs Elem
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (1,998 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement74C6
School Progress77C3
Closing the Gaps67D3
Academic Growth66D4
Relative Performance77C3

Closest to moving up: School Progress, 3 points below B in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.

TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. For this school that better measure is School Progress (77), so Student Achievement (74) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 77.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level69%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,891 reporting
  • Meets grade level47%−1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,891 reporting
  • Masters grade level23%+4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,891 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level71%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,887 reporting
  • Meets grade level48%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,887 reporting
  • Masters grade level22%+1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,887 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level70%−1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,878 reporting
  • Meets grade level49%+7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,878 reporting
  • Masters grade level26%+10 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,878 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level66%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,728 reporting
  • Meets grade level40%−6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,728 reporting
  • Masters grade level21%+1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,728 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (1,998 in cohort)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only schools for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students
562
Economically disadvantaged
64.9%−0.1 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
19.4%+1.5 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
29.0%+10.1 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
94.6%+0.5 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
12.5%−4.3 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Sulphur Springs Elem

African American: 9.3%Hispanic: 34%White: 50%American Indian: 0.4%Asian: 0.7%Pacific Islander: 0.4%Two or More Races: 5.3%
  • African American 9.3%
  • Hispanic 34%
  • White 50%
  • American Indian 0.4%
  • Asian 0.7%
  • Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • Two or More Races 5.3%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,998 reporting for every category shown · 1,998 in full cohort

African American: 11.4%Hispanic: 51.8%White: 30.5%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 2.2%Pacific Islander: 0.2%Two or More Races: 3.7%
  • African American 11.4%
  • Hispanic 51.8%
  • White 30.5%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 2.2%
  • Pacific Islander 0.2%
  • Two or More Races 3.7%

Student counts behind the percentages

Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.

Students in this TEA accountability summary
562
Economically disadvantaged students
365
Emergent bilingual students
109
Special education students
163

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
55
Students in TEA mobility denominator
625
TEA-published mobility rate
8.8%

The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.

The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.

Enrollment over time

TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.

TEA reported 562 students in 2025–26, a decrease of 36 (6.0%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
562

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
−36

Decrease · −6.0%

Change since 2021–22
−59

Decrease · −9.5%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
562
Selected comparison
624.4

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,964 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Sulphur Springs Elem
School yearStudents enrolledSulphur Springs ElemChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 621 First available year 641.5
2022–23 639 Increase of 18 (2.9%) 647.7
2023–24 639 No change 643.8
2024–25 598 Decrease of 41 (6.4%) 639
2025–26 562 Decrease of 36 (6.0%) 624.4

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting schools in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.

Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.

These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.

Discipline and removal from class

TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.

Students in TEA’s all-discipline count
13

2.1% of cumulative year-end enrollment

Disciplinary actions
18

2.88 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment
625

2024–25

Share of students · 2024–25

This school
2.1%
Selected comparison
12.9%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,538 rated schools reporting

−10.8 pts vs similar economic context

Actions per 100 students · 2024–25

This school
2.88
Selected comparison
30.4

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,649 rated schools reporting

−27.5 vs similar economic context
TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Sulphur Springs Elem
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 663 37 5.6% 63 9.50 9.8% 19.5
2021–22 650 39 6.0% 69 10.62 12.9% 30.3
2022–23 676 67 9.9% 129 19.08 13.4% 32.3
2023–24 667 31 4.7% 55 8.25 13.2% 31.9
2024–25 625 13 2.1% 18 2.88 12.9% 30.4
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Sulphur Springs Elem in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline 13 2.1% 18 2.88 12.9% 30.4
In-school suspensions 11 1.8% 15 2.40 11.6% 23.2
Out-of-school suspensions Not reported — Not reported — — —
DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —

Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized schools can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.

Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.

Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.

Spending per student

The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.

$6k$19k$33k20182020202220242025
  • Sulphur Springs Elem
  • Parent district: Sulphur Springs ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$31,740
Selected comparison
$12,669

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,972 rated schools reporting

+$19,071 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $31,740 per student for this campus, $21,394 per student for its parent district, Sulphur Springs ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.

View yearly spending figures
Spending per student by year
YearSulphur Springs ElemParent district: Sulphur Springs ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$6,237$11,397$13,054$7,925 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,835 rated schools reporting
2019$7,199$11,226$13,108$8,091 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,850 rated schools reporting
2020$8,151$11,398$14,058$8,670 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,871 rated schools reporting
2021$8,534$12,450$14,797$9,099 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,884 rated schools reporting
2022$8,225$13,163$15,708$10,464 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,904 rated schools reporting
2023$8,007$13,135$16,792$11,175 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,927 rated schools reporting
2024$8,212$14,094$18,125$12,069 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,956 rated schools reporting
2025$31,740$21,394$18,972$12,669 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,972 rated schools reporting

The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.

Teachers and actual class size

Average salary
$62,849−$3,559 vs similar economic context
Teachers
45+2.4 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
12.5−1.4 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Sulphur Springs Elem

1 to 5 years: 37.8%6 to 10 years: 11.1%11 to 20 years: 35.6%21 to 30 years: 8.9%Over 30 years: 6.7%
  • 1 to 5 years 37.8%
  • 6 to 10 years 11.1%
  • 11 to 20 years 35.6%
  • 21 to 30 years 8.9%
  • Over 30 years 6.7%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,998 reporting for every category shown · 1,998 in full cohort

Beginning: 6.3%1 to 5 years: 26.3%6 to 10 years: 19.1%11 to 20 years: 27.9%21 to 30 years: 15.8%Over 30 years: 4.1%
  • Beginning 6.3%
  • 1 to 5 years 26.3%
  • 6 to 10 years 19.1%
  • 11 to 20 years 27.9%
  • 21 to 30 years 15.8%
  • Over 30 years 4.1%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Sulphur Springs Elem in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classSulphur Springs Elem · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Grade 418.219
Grade 518.719.9

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 2 of 12 categories for this campus; the categories are not combined into a made-up campus-wide average. Each selected comparison average uses only schools reporting that same grade or subject.

Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.

Where this school ranks best

Out of 105 rankings computed across every published metric and every available comparison group, these are all the measures that meet this site’s distinctive-placement threshold. The list does not change when you change Compare against. Each measure appears once, using its strongest placement. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

#2–3 rankings

Second- and third-place results

3 measures

  • 2of 15

    Per-student spending

    Hopkins County · of the 15 that report this measure

  • 3of 14

    Chronically absent (lowest is best)

    Hopkins County · of the 14 that report this measure

  • 3of 13

    Math — Masters

    Hopkins County · of the 13 that report this measure

#4–10 rankings

Fourth- through tenth-place results

14 measures

  • 4of 13

    Math — Meets

    Hopkins County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 5of 13

    All Subjects — Masters

    Hopkins County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 5of 13

    Reading — Masters

    Hopkins County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 6of 14

    Attendance

    Hopkins County · of the 14 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 7of 11

    Science — Masters

    Hopkins County · of the 11 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 8of 13

    All Subjects — Meets

    Hopkins County · of the 13 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 9of 13

    Relative Performance

    Hopkins County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 9of 13

    All Subjects — Approaches

    Hopkins County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 9of 13

    Reading — Approaches

    Hopkins County · of the 13 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 9of 13

    Math — Approaches

    Hopkins County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 9of 11

    Academic Growth

    Hopkins County · of the 11 that report this measure

  • 9of 11

    Science — Meets

    Hopkins County · of the 11 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 10of 13

    Reading — Meets

    Hopkins County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 10of 11

    Science — Approaches

    Hopkins County · of the 11 that report this measure

These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this school ranks poorly. Each measure appears once here, using its strongest qualifying placement across all available comparison groups. Very large ties are left out because they do not distinguish this school; any tie that does appear is labeled. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.

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Single-file records are pre-built for district-level records only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here. Producing both formats for every entity would consume most of the 20,000-asset deployment limit before pages and shared data are counted. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 112901108.